Zwingli, Huldrych | Heiko A. Oberman (lecture date 1984)
Heiko A. Oberman (lecture date 1984)
SOURCE: "Zwingli's Reformation Between Sucess and Failure," in The Reformation: Roots and Ramifications, translated by Andrew Colin Gow, T & T Clark, 1994, pp. 183–99.
[In this essay, originally delivered as a lecture in 1984, Oberman discusses Zwingli's contributions to the Reformation in the political and social context of sixteenth-century Switzerland.]
CANTONIZATION AND PAROCHIALISM
Is Zwingli's Reformation anything more than an episode between Luther and Calvin? To claim that it had a world-wide or even a European influence seems presumptuous in the light of recent Reformation history, which assigns Zwingli's Zurich to the 'city Reformation' and characterizes this phenomenon in sociological terms as a process of 'communalization'.
If communalization means the emancipation of the city, which dates back to the late Middle Ages, and in conjunction with this, the 'localization' of...
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